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Brilliant! The 2007 rugby season arrived
quicker than a Federer backhand and for many this will be a defining
season. The World Cup is of course all consuming and readers better
get use to it, everything will be subject to, justified by and
measured against the greater glory of the World Cup.
Starting this season,
RF will venture away from the weekly or as was the case last year,
not so weekly mail to a column on the
www.rugbyforum.co.za
website. Many readers expressed their support for the idea but maybe
a quick explanation as to why, after 6 years, make a change?
Well, the amount of
work it created for this supporter / armchair critic / writer became
just too much. It was quite a process to do the weekly mail and to a
large extent too dogmatic and as work pressure increased (referring
to my real job!), the time and will was severely lacking. Not
to mention the Springbok results...
It is / was no
small decision but the idea is to be able to free up more time for
actually writing than doing the compiling and relying on others to
get RF out there in your inbox. Added to that the management of a
large mailing list, dealing with mail server replies for out of
office, subscribers who are no longer at the mail address and things
just became too much.
The decision is
thus to move away and share my thoughts with you where just about
every other person in the world is doing it now - the Internet blog.
So hopefully, I will be able to post more often and for those
subscribers out there, the idea will be (eventually) for you to post
replies. In the mean time please continue the fantastic
correspondence to the usual address - lucas@rugbyforum.co.za
A quick
clarification... the idea is not to become another Keo.co.za he has
his niche and is doing a very good job of it. Neither will it be a
news site. RF will remain true to its original idea and that is to
provide honest opinions and articles on the rugby world. No agendas,
no advertisers to please and no magazines to sell. This does not
mean I am not open to suggestions! After 7 years and no real income
from this hobby, a few rand will do nicely thank you!
This will be in
fact the final email and after 234 mails, its been a great innings!
Thank you for all your support and please continue to do so! Also,
feel free to send the link to friends and other interested parties
and drop by regularly for more articles.
All the best
lucas |
